WENTNOR, a parish in the hundred of PURSLOW, county of SALOP, 5 miles (X.E. by E.) from Bishop's Castle, containing 583 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Hereford, rated in the king's books at £7. 2. 11., and in the patronage of the Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. Michael.